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 May 13, 2002 Copyright (c) 2002 Ziff Davis Media Inc.
ISP Protects Its IP Backbone From DDoS Attacks

By  Dennis Fisher

Despite all of the attention distributed-denial-of-service attacks have 
received in the past couple of years and all of the time and money IT managers 
have spent trying to prevent them, most of the major ISPs have yet to take any 
real proactive steps to halt such attacks.

Telus Corp. on Monday will announce that it is the first major ISP in North 
America to deploy an anti-DDoS solution on its entire IP backbone. The Burnaby, 
B.C., telecommunications and data provider has installed Arbor Networks Inc.'s 
Peakflow DoS product.

Arbor's product is installed at several points on a customer's network and 
works by learning what "normal" traffic is on the network and then identifying 
and alerting network operators to anomalous events.

Following the series of DDoS attacks on high-profile Web sites in February 
2000, enterprise IT managers and CIOs scrambled to come up with ways to 
identify, halt and trace DDoS attacks. But many of them realized quickly that 
there was only so much they could do without the cooperation of their carriers.

"The things that an enterprise can do are limited unless the carrier gets 
involved," said Ted Julian, chief strategy officer at Arbor, based in 
Lexington, Mass. "It's not that this problem is going away, but at least we'll 
have the tools to deal with it."

Telus executives say that the company's customers have been asking for DDoS 
protection for some time.

"To be honest, we weren't sure how much of a problem we had," said Deryl 
Williams, director of global business development at Telus. "You do see 
anomalies, so it's hard to tell."

Copyright (c) 2002 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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